Hi All,

I am looking at getting a small group together to organise a family Harvest Festival in Waterworks Reserve around the last Sunday 29th of March.

If anyone is interested in helping, the idea is to have all the catchment letterboxed and invited to bring their home made produce of any description for giving, exchanging or selling.

Will also have some old style entertainments such as facepainting, apple bobbing and guessing games as well as some live joyful music.

Give me a ring or email if you are interested or leave a comment below.

Amanda at 144
Phone: 6223 7315

Join us at…..

Friday 12th December
From 6 pm on
Sites 7 & 8, Waterworks Picnic area.

All welcome… flat play area… bring your own stuff… invite your neighbours… have fun.

Waterworks community has been well represented (myself, Dorka and Horst, Glenda and Phil, Chris, Steff and Vica) in working bees at Princes Street Primary School vegetable garden.

Rebecca Boyle plus and other parents have been keen to introduce a culture of environmental awareness in the school and have started a small vegetable garden, worm farm and composting heap near the kindergarten and child care centre – and more recently some beds for fruit trees and vines.

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ABC Radio National is holding a My Street competition to unearth some great stories about Australian communities as part of its Street Stories program.

People throughout Australia are being invited to tell the tale of their street using video, audio, images and/or text. The story can be recorded on a mobile phone, an MP3 player, a video or digital camera, or it could be a written description or a series of photos with captions.

Entries will be uploaded onto the Radio National website and the producer of the best story will have the opportunity to work with a producer to record and edit a radio story about their street.

Entries close on November 7 – click HERE to find out more.

Is there a creative person out there who would like to put something together? If so, please leave a comment below or email us HERE.

Local ’sustainable commmunities’ have now set up in West Hobart and in the Channel area. We can learn from them as much as they can learn from us. And we can collaborate on some things.

Click HERE to visit West Hobart’s site.

Note that this group has set up three sub-groups: Home Energy / Gardening / Transport. What do people think about us doing similar?

In Britain the name for it is Transition Towns – communities that have decided to break away from consumer culture and ecological decay. Or, more to the point, towards much more wholesome, vibrant, sustainable ways of living.

Well, that’s roughly what we are on about, so their experiences are well worth reading about - and learning from.

Click HERE to read all about it.
Click HERE to download the Transition Towns Primer - a manual on how to do it.

Okay… below (click on ‘comments’) is a space for you to give feedback on the design of this website.

We will do our best to make it suit everybody’s needs.

If you look immediately to the right you will see a category ‘website feedback’.

Just click on there any time you have a thought. Thanks to Dorka for her helpful thoughts.   

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